Markets & packaging

From plastic bottles to LEGO pieces

The Play Blocks Group has unveiled a prototype LEGO brick made from recycled plastic, the latest step in their journey to make the brand's products from sustainable materials.   ( Read more... )

CATEGORY: Sustainability and environment

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Trends & design

Toly and Sulapac Form Alliance for Sustainable Innovation

Toly and Sulapac have announced that they have entered into a business partnership to be able to offer unique and disruptive solutions to accelerate growth in today's eco-centric, beauty world.   ( Read more... )

CATEGORY: Innovations BRAND: Sulapac

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Markets & packaging

Today's waste becomes tomorrow's resource: “Waste4Future” paves new ways for plastics recycling

A sustainable society with climate-neutral processes requires significant adjustments in the value chains, which are only possible through innovations. Seven Fraunhofer Institutes are pooling their expertise in the lighthouse project "Waste4Future" to develop new solutions for this goal, from the raw material base to material flows and process engineering right to the end of a product's life cycle. In particular, they want to increase energy and resource efficiency in the use of plastics and thus pave the way for a chemical industry that requires fewer fossil raw materials and produces fewer emissions. ( Read more... )

CATEGORY: Sustainability and environment BRAND: IMWS

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Industry equipment

HERMA 500 Applicator: Easy Integration, Real-Time Communication

HERMA is making it easier than ever before to integrate label applicators in packaging and other machine lines. The HERMA 500 is thought to be the first applicator to feature Industrial Ethernet interfaces for PROFINET and EtherNet/IP for this purpose, including the data blocks. This potentially eliminates complex wiring and the associated costs, while real-time communication can take place with the machine control for the first time. ( Read more... )

CATEGORY: Machinery and applications BRAND: Herma

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Actuality packaging

Flint Group Packaging Inks & Poteet Printing Systems to Showcase Latest Ink and Coating Innovations at Supercorrexpo 2021

Flint Group Packaging Inks and its recently acquired partner, Poteet Printing Systems, have announced they will be exhibiting at SuperCorrExpo 2021 on August 9-12, at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida. ( Read more... )

CATEGORY: Company news BRAND: Flint Group Packaging

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Actuality packaging

FACHPACK 2021 showcases trends, innovations and best practices for the packaging industry

When FACHPACK gets to open its doors again at Exhibition Centre Nuremberg from 28 to 30 September 2021, it will be the first major gathering of the European packaging industry for two years and a much longed-for reunion. ( Read more... )

CATEGORY: Fairs, events BRAND: FachPack

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Industry equipment

Crown Helps Cruzcampo (Heineken) Launch “Con Mucho Acento” Summer Campaign

The Heineken flagship beer cans feature Accents technology to offer consumers an original collectable series. ( Read more... )

CATEGORY: Machinery and applications BRAND: Crown Technology

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Markets & packaging

Pujolasos introduces its sustainable “bacteria-free” wooden caps

An antibacterial product, primarily intended for the cosmetics and perfumery market, where it ensures that the entire surface of the cap is free of bacterial activity during its lifetime of use. ( Read more... )

CATEGORY: Material innovations BRAND: Pujolasos

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Trends & design

Digital technology and sustainable solutions: That’s how you reach generation YZ

As consumers and future employees, generations Y and Z are the target of marketing and recruiting initiatives by the packaging sector. But where and how do you reach out to this generation? ( Read more... )

CATEGORY: strategies BRAND: FachPack

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Actuality packaging

ISRA VISION enters the future with a new management team

More than three decades ago, ISRA VISION was founded as a spin-off of the Technical University of Darmstadt and subsequently developed into a leading global machine vision technology company. ( Read more... )

CATEGORY: Company news BRAND: ISRA VISION

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